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SBAC water polo players kick off their college season

Monday, January 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Alex and Tiera

Santa Barbara Aquatics Club was well presented at NCAA Division I collegiate tournaments held at UCSB and UC Berkeley over the weekend.UCSB’s Siena Van Alphen (Dos Pueblos High/SBAC), Tahnia Mark (DPHS/SBAC), and Kacey Creek (Royal High/SBAC) squared off against Arizona State University and Mackenzy Fowler (Santa Barbara High/SBAC) Friday at UCSB’s Campus pool where the sixth-ranked Sun Devils prevailed 12-7.Saturday morning the 17th-ranked Gauchos met Sonoma State and Brittny Hummel … [Read more...]

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Gauchos win four straight before falling to Indiana

Monday, January 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment
UCSB's Molly Hafferkamp (Peter Trabucco Photos)

No. 17 UCSB split its two games on the second and final day of the UCSB Winter Invite, which was held at Campus Pool. The Gauchos (7-4) dominated Cal State Bakersfield (1-3), 11-4, before suffering a tough overtime loss to No. 9 Indiana (5-2), 8-6.The Gaucho winning streak continued as UCSB took on Cal State Bakersfield in their first game of the day. Fired up, junior Shelby Haroldson scored the first goal of the game within the first minute.After the Roadrunners scored their first … [Read more...]

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Gauchos come out of the first day of the UCSB Invite with a pair of wins

Saturday, January 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment

It was another beautiful day in Santa Barbara as the UCSB Winter Invite began at 8 am Saturday morning at Campus Pool. No. 17 UC Santa Barbara (5-3) set the standard for tournament play as it won both of its matches. The Gauchos kicked off the tournament with a dominating win over Sonoma State (1-2), 10-2, and later defeated No. 19 Cal State Northridge (1-1), 9-6.The start of the first match was no surprise as the Gauchos carried their momentum from their previous victory over Concordia on … [Read more...]

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Gauchos go 1-1 against ASU, Concordia

Friday, January 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment

No. 17 UCSB suffered a tough 12-7 loss to No. 6 Arizona State, but came back with fire and beat Concordia.Arizona State's Alicia Brightwell scored the first of her four goals in the first three minutes of the first quarter. Junior Bryce Winton followed close behind scoring the first Gaucho goal of the game on a six-on-five making the score 1-1. Arizona State scored two more goals in the first quarter for a 3-1 lead.Junior Kacey Creek scored the first of her three goals of the game in the … [Read more...]

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Two losses for UCSB at Spartan Invitational

Saturday, January 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment

No. 17 UC Santa Barbara (2-2) suffered its first losses of the 2012 season on Saturday as the Gauchos fell to No. 16 UC Davis (1-0) and San Jose State (2-0), 12-8, during their opening games at San Jose State's Spartan Invitational.In the first game of the day, the Aggies climbed out to a 6-3 advantage by halftime and a four-goal third quarter pushed their lead to 10-5 heading into the final stanza.The Gauchos outscored their opponent, 3-2, in the final eight minutes, but were unable to … [Read more...]

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Milne sets UCSB career mark in Gaucho win

Friday, January 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment

SANTA CLARA – No. 17 UCSB (2-0) continued its season-opening road swing on Friday afternoon with a 9-4 victory over Santa Clara (0-1) at the Broncos' Sullivan Aquatic Center.On the way to the win, junior goalkeeper Ruth Milne set a new UCSB record for career blocks as she brought her career total to 598 saves, surpassing previous record-holder Yvonne Conard's 595.Kacey Creek, who tallied four goals in the Gauchos' season-opening win over Cal State Monterey Bay on Thursday, once … [Read more...]

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Creek, Ruano score four in UCSB opener

Friday, January 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment

MONTEREY – The No. 17 UC Santa Barbara women's water polo (1-0) team held on for a 10-9 victory at Cal State Monterey Bay (1-0) to open the 2012 campaign on Thursday afternoon. Kacey Creek and Nancy Ruano each scored four goals to lead the Gauchos offensively.After going down a goal in the first minute, UCSB rebounded with consecutive goals from Creek and Claryann Ologsson-Loo to take its first lead of the game with 2:22 to go in the first quarter. The Otters knotted the score during … [Read more...]

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UCSB announces Neushul’s first recruits

Tuesday, January 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment

The UCSB women's water polo program, under the new leadership of head coach Cathy Neushul, has signed seven student-athletes to National Letters of Intent during the fall signing period.Marley Delaney (Long Beach/Los Alamitos HS), Michelle Dunn (San Jose/Pioneer HS), Bryn Hudson (Tualatin, Oregon/Tualatin HS), Samantha Murphy (San Jose/Leland HS), Holly Smith (Fullerton/Troy HS), Jessie Porter (Tustin/Foothill HS) and Debby Tickenoff (Fontana/Los Osos HS) are expected to join the Gauchos for … [Read more...]

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Cole caps Princeton career with 2nd NCAA bronze medal

Monday, December 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Jeff Cole

BY PETER NEUSHULJeff Cole, a senior at Princeton University, won a bronze medal at the 2012 NCAA Division I Men’s Water Polo Championship held a couple of weeks ago at  UC Berkeley.This was Cole’s second trip to the big dance as he helped lead the Tigers to their first-ever appearance and a bronze medal in the 2009 NCAA championship.Cole is a Santa Barbara High grad and a member of the Santa Barbara Aquatics Club.Longtime Santa Barbara sports chronicler John Zant noted that … [Read more...]

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MPSF, NCAA tourney teams full of SB Aquatics alums

Saturday, December 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Chase racich

Santa Barbara Aquatics Club was well represented at the 2011 MPSF water polo championships held at UCLA this past weekend.The club also has a presence at this weekend’s Division I NCAA Championships at UC Berkeley.Danny White (SBAC/Rio Mesa) and Parker Peterson (SBAC/SBHS) are juniors at Pepperdine who both played for the Waves at the MPSF tournament. White was Pepperdine’s leading scorer as a sophomore. Pepperdine, seeded 6th, faced third-ranked UCLA in the opening game of the MPSF. … [Read more...]

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UCSB’s Shoemaker, Racich, Gronow go All-MPSF

Tuesday, November 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment

A trio of UCSB men's water polo players have garnered All-Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Honorable Mention accolades it was announced on Tuesday by the conference. Junior Brian Shoemaker, sophomore Matt Gronow and freshman Chase Racich each earned their first career all-league award.This marks the first time since the 2007 season that UCSB has had as many as three players make All-MPSF teams.Shoemaker garners the honor after scoring a career-high 23 goals this season, which was … [Read more...]

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UCSB water polo closes out MPSF tourney

Sunday, November 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment

LOS ANGELES  – Staked to a 4-0 lead after the first quarter, No. 5-seed UC Santa Barbara held on for a 10-8 victory against No. 6-seed Pepperdine in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Tournament's seventh-place match Sunday morning at UCLA's Spieker Aquatics Center.UCSB (16-12) received goals from eight players, including two from Matt Gronow and Matt Johnson. Pepperdine (12-14) was paced by Spence Hamby's team-leading three goals.Playing under sunny skies in 80-degree weather, … [Read more...]

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